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RU Engaged: A Community Engaged Byrne Seminar with Alternative Spring Break* – Community Gardens

 

Course # 01:090:101:22

 

Are you looking for opportunities to get engaged with the New Brunswick community?

After learning about urban gardening and community food systems in this interactive Byrne Seminar, you’ll dive into community-based gardening and emergency food projects during a weeklong Spring Break trip in New Brunswick. You will stay in a New Brunswick hotel with your peers and spend your days working with community organizations. While you continue to learn about community food security and how non-profits and government address hunger in the community, you’ll participate in service-learning opportunities.

 

Professor: Kathe Newman (Urban Planning and Policy Development)

 

Schedule: Meets Mondays, 12:10-1:30 PM in the Civic Square Building, Room 170

 

THIS COURSE HAS A MANDADTORY SPRING BREAK TRIP (March 15-19, 2027).  

Once you register for the course, you will receive an email with more information. 

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Instructor

Kathe Newman

Professor, Department of Urban Planning and Policy Development, Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy

Director, Ralph W. Voorhees Center for Civic Engagement